Curtain-rod bracket



Jul 20,1926. 1,593,114 1 E. P WYATT CURTAiN non BRACKET 7 Filed Jan. '20, 1925 @ZZW%%T 8 Patented July 20, 1926.

UNITE- EDYTH P. W'YAIT, 0F DENVER, COLORADS.

CURTAIN-ROD BRACKET.

Application filed January This invention relates to improvements in curtain rod brackets.

In Patent Number 1,509,330 granted to me on the 23rd day of September, 1924, I have shown and described a curtain rod togother with several specifically different brackets to be used with the same. This invention relates to an improved form of bracket. It is customary to equip each win dow with a roller shade, a lace curtain and side and top drapes. The roller shades are nearly always mounted in a set of brackets that are separate and independent from the brackets upon which the curtain rods are supported. In this way there are usually two sets of brackets at each window which is wasteful of material and presents a clumsy appearance.

It is the object of this invention to produce a bracket of a neat and pleasing design that is adapted to be attached to the window frame by means of screws and which shall be provided with means for holding the roller curtain and the three curtain rods usually employed in addition to the roller shade. It is also quite desirable at times to suspend various. things between the window and the shade, as for example wreaths, such as are displayed at Christmas time. As far as I am aware, no one has made any provision for suspending such things as wreaths in a window with the result that screws, nails or tacks have to be employed whereby the wood work is marred. It is one object of this invention to'provide a bracket having means for suspending various articles.

The above and other objects that will appear as the description proceeds are attained by means of a construction that I will now proceed to describe in detail, reference for this purpose being had to the accompanying drawing in which the preferred embodiment of my invention is illustrated and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a window to which my invention has been applied.

Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of the left hand bracket, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the bracket on the right side of the window.

Numeral 1 designates the right hand vertical member of a window frame; 2 the left hand vertical member and 3 the transverse top member. Numeral 4 indicates the 20, 1925. Serial no. 3,551.

right hand bracket as a whole and 5 the left hand bracket. These brackets have been shown separately in 2 and 3 and are identical in size and shape except for this that one is a right. and the other a left. There is also another difference due to the fact that one bracket is intended to cooperate with the round projection on the end of a roller shade, while the other is so made that it will cooperate with the flattened projection on the spring end of the shade roller.

Each bracket comprises a flat portion -(5 adapted to engage the front surface of the parts 1 or 2. These parts 6 have openings 7 for the reception of the screws by means of which they are secured to the window frame. Stamped from the same sheet 10f material and integral with the part 6 are brack t arms 8, 9 and 10 which are of difierent length, the upper one being the longest. These bracket arms are also offset in a transverse direction, the lowermost one being the closest to the edge of the window. The reason for making the upper bracket arms longer than the one below is so that the lace curtain 11, the portiere 12 and the drape 13 will hang in separate planes, while the sidewise spacing is convenient when large balls are used on the ends of the rods and it also gives a more pleasing appearance to the brackets. For the purpose of supporting the shade roller the part 6 of the right hand bracket has an arm 14 projecting outwardly therefrom in the manner shown in Fig. 3, while the left hand brackct has a similar arm 1%. The arm 14 has a round hole 15 for the reception of the round end of a shade roller, while arm 143* has a slot for the reception of the flattened end of a shade roller. The slot in arm it has a portion 16 that extends inwardly and upwardly and intersects a vertical slot 17 from which a similar slot 18 projects inwardly and upwardly. The slot formed by the three sections just described is well adapted to receive the flattened end of a shade roller and is admirably adapted to prevent accidental displacement as the parts are so proportioned that the flattened end cannot be inserted into or removed from the ;art 1'? without first having to enter the slot 18.

l have explained above how it is often desirable to hang wreaths and other things in the windows of a house and in order that this can be conveniently done I have provided the arms 14 and 1 1 with upwardly projecting lugs 19 having holes 20. A wire 21 may be stretched from one lug 19 to the other and this wire may be used as a support for any object that is to be suspended in the window. As far as I am aware no one has heretofore provided brackets with special means for this purpose and I therefore intend to claim this feature broadly.

here ordinary round curtain rods are used the bracket arms may have seats like those indicated by numeral 22 in Figs. 2 and 3. The seats 22 may obviously be altered so as to adapt them to receive any shaped curtain rod that may be desired. I

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A curtain rod bracket consisting of a short flat body portion of sheet metal adapted to be secured to the surface of a window frame near the upper end thereof, a bracket projecting outwardly at right angles to the body portion on the side nearest the window, said bracket being adapted to support one end of a shade roller, a plurality of separate bracket arms formed integral with the body portion, on the side farthest away from the window, and projecting perpendicularly to the plane of the body portion, each of said arms lying in a plane parallel with but spaced from the plane of the adjacent arm, said arms being located at different heights and each being of a different length, the shortest arm being the lowermost and the nearest to the side having the shade bracket.

2. A curtain rod bracket comprising, in combination, a flat body portion adapted to be secured to the front side of a window frame near the upper end thereof, said body portion having three separate bracket arms projecting at right angles therefrom on the side farthest from the window, said arms being located at different heights and in spaced vertical planes, the lowermost arm being the shortest and the nearest to the window and a shade roller supporting bracket arm projecting from the body member on the side nearest the window, said last named bracket having an upwardly projecting lug adapted to serve as an anchor for a wire support.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

EDYTH P. WYATT. 

